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Re: unemployment benefits running out for 1.3m americans saturday

Originally Posted by cpwill

Look, if we are rotting out the people's brains, desensitizing their souls to the suffering of others, and turning destructive criminal behavior into amusing sport rather than something to be shunned..... but can also make oodles of money off of it?!?

Cmon Chris - it's the American Way!

The ancient Greeks were very fond of their sitcoms. Maybe I should start watching them, American sitcoms, instead of learning more about the ancient Greeks. I am still in awe of the Athenian victory of the Persians at Marathon.

Re: unemployment benefits running out for 1.3m americans saturday

Originally Posted by Misterveritis

The ancient Greeks were very fond of their sitcoms. Maybe I should start watching them, American sitcoms, instead of learning more about the ancient Greeks. I am still in awe of the Athenian victory of the Persians at Marathon.

Re: unemployment benefits running out for 1.3m americans saturday

I heard today on the news this guybeing interviewed who's been collecting unemployment benefits for almost two years and he was pissed off.

I think his exact words were "I now have to go out and get a job !!!"

The recession ended in July of 2009. It's been Obama's economy as soon as he got his stimulus to pay off the unions and his corporate donors who helped put him in office, cash for clunkers and the Feds have been propping up Obama's economy for almost five years now.

A stunning lack of citations...Need to get over the hyper-partisanship too

Men do what they have to when they want to, Great men do what they have to, even when they don't want to.